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...Rio Grande Zephyr, the last privately operated long-haul passenger service in the Lower 48 states, was about to be shut down. Its operator, the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, said the train was losing $3 million a year. The new operator would be the National Railroad Passenger Corp., the Government-subsidized organization known as Amtrak. The old cars with their rump-sprung seats would be replaced with Amtrak's firm-chaired, bullet ride to modernity. The cuisine of the dining car, a draw for serious trenchermen, would be replaced with Amtrak food, no adjective necessary...
DIED. Dolores Del Rio, 78, enduringly beautiful Mexican movie actress; in Newport Beach, Calif. Even in the silent era she tended to be typecast in such films as Ramona (1928) and The Loves of Carmen (1927); after sound, her accent limited her still further, though she starred in Flying Down to Rio (1933) and Madame Du Barry (1934). Finally sick of the Hollywood yoke, she returned to Mexico and helped establish the country's movie industry, notably with Maria Candelaria...
...Brazil's near loan defaults are causing headaches for international bankers, but the devaluation of Mexican and Brazilian currency has been a boon to American travelers to these countries. Ellen W. Grinberg, an agent at Trips & Company, said her agency is offering a one-week package to Rio de Janeiro, including round trip airfare and hotel, for $499. "We see many students taking advantage of this," said Grinberg, who pointed out that the lowest scheduled airfare to Rio alone...
...boss of Fox films was regarded as frivolous when it was announced in January 1980, a "figurehead" move, as another female film executive described it at the time. A former math teacher (in the racially tense Watts district of Los Angeles), Max Factor model, actress (with John Wayne in Rio Lobo) and $5-an-hr. script reader, Lansing moved to Fox from Columbia, where she had risen quickly to senior vice president of production...
...border between Mexico and the U.S. is political and historical, not geographical. There are no natural barriers between the two nations. The Rio Grande does not separate, it unites. But the sameness of the landscape only accentuates the social and historical differences. They are most visible ethnically and, above all, economically. The wealth of the U.S. and the poverty of Mexico are usually expressed in social and political terms: development and underdevelopment, the policies of American expansionism and Mexican defensiveness. This opposition is real enough, but the true difference is more profound. It has been apparent since the birth...